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Title:
How can I automatically relaunch nautilus if I quit the program?
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Update: October 16, 2019.
Thanks to gnome expertβs answer on linked question below, a faster more stable method of relaunching Nautilus File Manager has been implemented.
This turned out to be a challenging problem because Nautilus is always running to control the desktop. If you kill the program nautilus
all your desktop icons will disappear. When nautilus is running and your desktop icons are present and you type nautilus
in the terminal then the Nautilus File Manager appears.
Copy this script to a file called ~/ttlus
:
#!/bin/bash
# NAME: ttlus (Twenty Thousand Loops Under Startup)
# PATH: $HOME/askubuntu/
# DESC: Answer for: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1180043/how-can-i-automatically-relaunch-nautilus-if-i-quit-the-program
# Call Nautilus, named after Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea novel,
# 20,000 times in loop from Startup Applications
# DATE: October 10, 2019. Modified October 16, 2019.
# NOTE: Things that don't work:
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/965052/how-to-make-script-wait-for-nautilus-to-exit
# https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1604843
# UPDT: Rpelace loop with occassional focus grabbing and unpredictable delays:
# while ps -L -p "$PID" -o pid,nice,lwp,comm | grep pool > /dev/null ; do
# with:
# while gdbus introspect --session --dest org.gnome.Nautilus \ ... 3 lines
LoopLimit=20000
Program="nautilus"
#Program="/usr/bin/nautilus --gapplication-service"
PID=$(pgrep nautilus)
Sec=3
if [[ $PID == "" ]] ; then
notify-send "ERROR in $0: Cannot find nautilus PID"
exit
fi
for (( l=0; l<LoopLimit; l++ )) ; do
# Is nautilus file manager running? 1 Window only is desktop icons
while gdbus introspect --session --dest org.gnome.Nautilus \
--object-path /org/gnome/Nautilus --recurse | \
grep -q '^ *node /org/gnome/Nautilus/window/' | \
grep -v '/window/1' ; do
sleep "$Sec"
done
"$Program" "$HOME" 2> /dev/null
sleep $(( Sec / 2 ))
done
notify-send "ERROR in $0: $Program exceeded $LoopLimit loop limit"
Make it executable with chmod a+x ~/ttlus
First test is by typing ~/ttlus &
in the terminal. After you are satisfied add it in Startup Applications.
If program runs amok use:
``` bash $ pgrep ttlus 7970
$ kill 7970 1+ Terminated ttlus
```
Notes:
-
Due to the
sleep "$Sec"
command after exiting Nautilus with Alt+F4 or clicking X on window a three second delay (to reduce resource usage) will occur before Nautilus reappears on the desktop.